As expected from Sunrise Studio, this episode fully showcases its impressive mech animation during the battle sequences. The episode contains some gore, but the studio handles it tastefully without showing excessive graphic detail. This also marks the debut of short-haired Ange, though only after an underwhelming first sortie and a chaotic second one. The only thing that bothered me was that one detail during the battle. It wasn't anything to do with the animation, so I'm hoping it'll be explained later along with some of the other mysteries.